Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twice last week Argentine President Isabel Perón went on television to tell her people how she had saved them from near disaster. In the first address, she claimed to have ended, without a single casualty, an abortive four-day coup by a faction of air force officers. Then...
There is also a new elementary school two miles from El Bahu, which means that the children of the village are the first in its history to be able to get an education. "At first we thought the school would ruin us," said one middle-aged fellah. "We need the...
As they prepared for the Christmas holiday last week, some Americans suffered second thoughts about traveling by air. Much of their fear of flying was caused by the recent and widely publicized spate of near collisions involving commercial airliners. On Thanksgiving Eve, 24 people were injured when an American Airlines...
The recovery that is likely to be produced by "steady as she goes" policies bears no resemblance to anything that could be called a boom. If the forecasts are correct, unemployment a year from now will still be as high as it was at the bottom of some earlier recessions...
"This is not a sign of disaster," she says, "but one of real health."